I have created an event that will have the weekly challenge and also the link to submit. At the end of the week, I will cross that challenge off.

I had taken a couple of days off from work because I had a college friend visiting from Delaware.

Just the day before, we had stopped at EBGames and were looking through the games when he saw Deus Ex: Game of the Year edition for like $15 because it had been out a while. He highly recommended I pick up the game.

That night I installed it and he watched as I played through the first "level" of the game. A level that takes place in the remnants of a destroyed Statue of Liberty (destroyed by French terrorists).

The next morning, my mother wakes me up to tell me the Twin Towers had been attacked by terrorists and that I should probably get my friend up (he was sleeping in our guest room on the first floor of the house).

After having just experienced Deus Ex, "surreal" is the only word I can use to describe the feeling I had. Every time a new attack was announced (Pentagon, then they said a car bomb at the Senate, then the plane in PA) I just kept thinking to myself, "how much further is this going to go?!" In my mind I kept seeing the dystopia that America had become in the wake of terrorist attacks and feeling like I was somehow living those exact events.

I am fortunate to not know anyone who was physically harmed during the attacks, but my fiance, MikeyNY, witnessed the horror first hand from his dorm room at Pace University. Horrors we were sheltered behind even by live coverage on TV. But I'll leave it to him if he wants to share those experiences.

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There should be a free trial that you can play until the end of the year.

You can try using this code:
SCBK1-CM8RB-U4DUX-8LYUH-6NW3E

It should give you ten free days of game time to try everything out.

Thanks hon, but it looks like that code was already used or so the error msg I receive is telling me.

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I was going to start the game last nite but it's still pay to play. I guess I got to excited and forget to read the "end of year" part. :)

I've never been in a game that offered life time memberships, I can see that if you love a game and intend to stay with it this would be a great benefit. I played WoW for 7 years and at one point I had 4 accounts or was it 5?? Please don't ask I tend to go overboard on things I like. So having a lifetime membership in that game would have really paid off for me.

There should be a free trial that you can play until the end of the year.

You can try using this code:
SCBK1-CM8RB-U4DUX-8LYUH-6NW3E

It should give you ten free days of game time to try everything out.

I was going to start the game last nite but it's still pay to play. I guess I got to excited and forget to read the "end of year" part. :)

I've never been in a game that offered life time memberships, I can see that if you love a game and intend to stay with it this would be a great benefit. I played WoW for 7 years and at one point I had 4 accounts or was it 5?? Please don't ask I tend to go overboard on things I like. So having a lifetime membership in that game would have really paid off for me.

I was 8 years old when it happened during 3rd grade in elementary school. I didn't know what had happpened until I came home after school, and my parents explained it all to me. I didn't fully understand why it happened, because I was too young fully comprehend what had occured. I was so afraid, all I could do was watch the news and cry. I didn't sleep that night.

I learned a new word that day... "Terrorism".

I was asleep when my partner came in to tell me one of the World Trade Towers was on fire. I told him to leave me alone and go to work. He made it a point to shake me until I woke up and looked at the tv. I was shocked awake to say the least and then my pager and cell phone started to go off. Showered and back out the door to the TV station where I work.

On my way in the interstate was so empty for being rush hour it was scary and I actually listened to AM radio news for one of the few times in my life. That's when I heard another plane had struck the other tower and all air traffic had been grounded in the U.S.

As I walked in the door everyone was starting at all the TVs we have tuned to multiple news stations and then the first tower fell. The silence in a room usually filled with so much noise thinking what everyone else was thinking was heartbreaking.

Seeing all the video that came in that day and in the days after was really rough. We have hundreds of tapes filled with stories and footage that i'm not even sure has ever been aired.

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From what I've learned, Lifetime accounts can be a great thing for a MMO. Many times, lifetime players provide a stable player base that can be counted on for a long time into the future and help develop the social aspect of MMO games. Take for instance, this fleet. It's been lead largely by players who are Lifetime members. We dedicate our time and our money to STO because we care and we've helped build a social community because of that. The number of month subs that we've helped Cryptic gain thanks to the niche community we have here has greatly outweighed any additional cost that the lifers in this fleet have incurred. Not too mention the Cryptic Points we've purchased over the last year and a half.

Just to make the point ...Having a life time wouldn't guarantee any kind of "Stable player base". A life timer is just as likely to quit the game as somebody paying the monthly sub the only difference it makes is that Cryptic will forever include that life timer in their player numbers even if that person stopped playing a long time ago.

My brother for an example. He purchased a life time account a few weeks after launch and played the weekend following .. he has never played again. The only thing a life time account means is that the user had the money to put down at the start.

i dont remeber much because i was so young at the time but i remeber that i was in middle school in 7th grade in english class and i remeber it being annouced and our teachers turning it onto the channel and just everyone stareing at the tv and then class being ended early.

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I'm imagining gladiator outfits and live streaming... ;)

Aha! That's how you got into beta!

I think with the new build that there will probably be more invites going out because all of it needs to be tested. Just a feeling (or a pathetic attempt at hope:))

Like Exo, I was in my first semester of college. However, Harvey Mudd's in southern California, so it was early in the morning for us when things started to go down. I remember my roommate, who always got up ridiculously early, waking me up with this exclamation that one of the towers had been hit by a plane. I remember groggily remembering about how a small airplane had once done that and thinking it wasn't a big deal. After being unable to get a bit more shut-eye before my alarm went off, I got up and checked CNN's website to find that it wasn't a dinky biplane that had hit them.

After quickly getting dressed and grabbing something to eat, I went to the common area of a dorm that had a big TV. A bunch of us were there watching it unfold. The second plane hit right before I had to leave to go to class. Yeah, Mudd didn't cancel classes at all. A few professors did dedicate time to watching the news reports and discussing it, but most of us had class as usual.

This happened in what was my second or third week of college. Because of that, the 9/11 attacks have always created this very strongly defined boundary between childhood and adulthood for me. On top of the stark contrast between high school life and college life, what followed for the country in the years after the attacks really made me, for the first time, closely examine American society and politics, and how I fit into them. More than any other event in my lifetime, 9/11 has really put the ideals of the United States to the test.

What's interesting is that, at least in my experience, it's the older generations that grew up and lived without the spectre of 9/11 that seem the most willing to throw away the ideals of the US for greater security. Conversely, those of us who grew up around the time of, or after, 9/11 seem to be the ones calling for greater tolerance and willing to accept some security risk to protect our freedoms.

Err...okay, I was stationed in Misawa Air Base Japan. I remember getting a call in the middle of the night from a co-worker telling me to turn on the news. Like everyone else, I couldn't immediately process what I was seeing. We were ordered not to report to the base that day but to sit at home until directed otherwise. That was a long day--I just sat there watching the news over and over.

The next day we reported to the base and you could tell immediately that everything changed--there was now an armed tank pointed towards the front gate and it took 3 hours for me to get on base (security checks) when it normally only took a few minutes.

It was my first semester in college. I checked a news feed before I head into my morning classes, and a few days earlier I remember a base-jumper getting caught on the statue of liberty. The news report implied it was a small plane, and assuming some other jackass had tried joy-riding as well, I dismissed it and headed to class.

In class, my teacher promptly indicated there was a bigger problem, and canceled the lesson. On my way back to my dorm I stopped through the student union and watched the second plane hit and the weight of the day finally hit me. I watched the news between classes, and somehow managed to witness the towers falling.

It hit very hard for me, having been to New York City for the first time that prior summer and stood at the top during my trip. Blessed Be to all those with worse experiences.

Episode 375 - Deep Space Nine - "Rules of Engagement" - 04/08/1996

http://www.allstepisodes.com/megvid.php?n=3418

Worf accidentally destroys a civilian ship during battle and faces a hearing to determine whether he should be extradited to the Klingon Empire.

Enjoy!

I agree 100% on this, how do you decide who gets in :) I do not envy them either and I agree on whether to get a new system or not to get a new system :) Too many decisions for a Friday LOL

I sure as heck do not want to be in the guild leaders shoes when we get guild beta invites and if there is a limited number of slots you can hand out. For now I've ppretty much thrown in the towel on getting a beta invite. Nay I'm not worried or anything along those lines. I pre ordered the game so I'll be ready when it comes out. I just need to decide if I want a new computer or not.....

Edit: To answer Nick's question. Just make it random if there is not enough invites to go out. Find out who is interested in doing the beta and put their name into a hat and draw from that. Again you won't make eeveryone happy but hopefully folks won't get their knickers in a knot over this. What ever method you use to decide I stand behind you. Again it's a tuff choice lets hope BioWare gives you invites to get everyone in.

I was working as a consultant at a law firm 2 blocks from the White House. A friend called me and told me that a plane hit the world trade center. I didn't believe him since he was always calling me about something that wasn't real and he was a jokester. I went back to working on my project.

My office was 3 doors down from the partners lounge when I happen to notice many folks running down the hall towards the lounge. I could hear the gasps and shrieks coming from the lounge. I got up from my desk and started walking down the hall when everyone in the room started crying and screaming....the towers had started to fall.

The mood changed in the office and folks were frantic to get out as there was word that a 3rd plane was headed towards the white house. (I never knew if this was true because there were so many rumors flying around that day)

The streets were packed if you tried to drive you were pretty much SOL as you couldn't get 2 feet on any street in DC. I was able to make it to my metro train...The Blue Line...which runs right under the Pentagon. I had no idea the Pentagon had been hit since I left work without catching up on the news. My train was diverted to another set of tracks.

It took awhile to get home that day but I was very thankful I was able to make it home. On September 11th a lot of folks did not make it home. My heart and prayers go out to them and their families.

On that particular day I was working as a telephone receptionist for an airport carpark company. As usual we had the TV on but only showing the teletext pages for flight times. We knew nothing about what was happening until one of our customers came in and told us that he reckoned we wouldnt have many people coming today to catch outbound flights. Puzzled we asked why, and he just answered to turn on the TV.

We did that just in time to see the second plane fly into the second tower. We watched for the rest of the day as the events unfolded and of course when the towers fell and we still knew of all the people trapped up the top emotions poured out.

Strangely enough not many people turned up that evening for their college lessons though.

I honestly had no idea what the Twin Towers were and when I got a text saying they had fallen it meant nothing.

I was out shopping at the time and passed a tv shop where there was a massive crowd and I will never forget seeing the video of the plane crashing into the second tower, the whole shopping centre was silent afterwards. I will never forget that moment.

The only other thing I can compare the clarity of memory to was the impact of Princess Diana's death. That's another time when everyone here remembers where they were